by Mac Slavo | Nov 12, 2018 | Headline News
As if more evidence is needed that bans don’t work, the United Kingdom’s knife crime “epidemic” is soaring. Even though there are incredibly strict knife control laws in the UK, public officials are declaring the knife violence a public health...
by Mac Slavo | Nov 12, 2018 | Headline News
Nigeria’s cholera outbreak has gone from bad to worse. So far, 175 people have died and over 10,000 are suspected to have been infected with the illness during the most recent outbreak’s scourge. Cholera is caused by a bacterium transmitted through...
by Mac Slavo | Nov 12, 2018 | Headline News
The Ebola outbreak currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo is seeing no end in sight. Not only has containment been made all but impossible by the violence in the area of the outbreak, but there is now very high chance that the infection will make its way...
by Mac Slavo | Nov 8, 2018 | Headline News
Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that people need to be prepared for the worst. Redfield said the Democratic Republic of Congo’s newest Ebola outbreak may not be containable. Tom Inglesby, the director of the...
by Mac Slavo | Nov 7, 2018 | Headline News
Superbugs, those pesky bacteria that have evolved to become resistant to antibiotics, are on the rise and pose a very real threat to humanity. Antimicrobial resistance is a large and growing problem, with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences for...